Can You Escape the Force of Gravity? [What is gravity?]

universetoday ^ | April 7, 2014 | Fraser Cain on

[BenLurkin]

There’s no end to it. Gravity appears to be madly greedy and long armed. Members of the Virgo Super cluster are connected to each other, and they’re dozens of millions of light-years apart. Objects in the Pisces-Cetus Super cluster complex are even connected to each other by our invisible and obnoxiously possessive friend. And they are hundreds of millions of light years apart…

In fact, you’re so popular that you are gravitationally pulled towards even most distant object in the observable Universe. And they, in turn, are linked to you. As a result, without the outward expansion and acceleration of the Universe, everything would fall inward to a common center of gravity. Newton thought that gravity was instantaneous and if the Sun disappeared, the Earth would immediately fly away. Einstein realized that gravity is distortions of spacetime caused by mass. And as it turns out, gravity moves at the speed of light.

[FlipWilson]

“I do remember reading that “push” accounts for some odd gravitaional properties that are not explained by the pull theory.”

It most definitely is a push that can bend light itself.

[FlipWilson]

‘Yes, please spare me. I’m still waiting for you to provide any experimental verification of the ideas you are advocating. Until you can come up with that, don’t bother sending me anything else.’

Like Eddingtons?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity

[Boogieman]

Well, yes, but one that demonstrates the assertions that the other poster was making, rather than GR.

[Paradox]

I was stunned, till I saw the game status meter on the lower right hand corner.

[KC Burke]

Is that what that bar reading is down there. Can you tell what game that this might have been modeled on to make it seem real?

[ShadowAce]

The theories don’t work, but that is the idea behind them.

You're right--because those theories don't explain orbits.

[KC Burke]

Are real Marine f-35 has the two upper openings that open. The rear opening is biparting and open to the side, the front intake opening opens like a rear hinged round lid.

I don’t see either one of those door(s)/openings on the top of the plane depicted when I pause it during its flip.

Snoopes things it was a very good rendering from Battlefield2.

[KC Burke]

“Are real...” should have read “a real...”

[Starstruck]

If gravity eventually wins out and all matter is pulled back together, will that point be the same as the point in which it all started?

[shotgun]

Einstein also discovered that time is actually money

[so_real]

Hopefully, I'll eventually be in Heaven and learn some further details from God. Though I don't want to seem impatient.

You and me both, FRiend. There's a pretty substantial playground out there, and I'm more than a little excited to try out the equipment myself.